Loimic

Quick meaning: Loimic is an adjective meaning (obsolete, medicine) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

Meaning

(obsolete, medicine) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

Example Sentences

Galen has not left us any distinct history of Loimic diseases; but there are numerous scattered observations in his works respecting them—[…]

Philo, the Jewish philosopher, gives a description of a ‘loimic’ pestilence which occurred during that century, and appositely conveys the mode of diffusion and the circumstances of the confluent small-pox.

The title of this translation (περὶ λοιµικῆς) and its preface prove that the Small-pox had been known to the antient Greeks under the name of Loimiké (the loimic or pestilential disease) and even divided into two distinct species. (pp. 20, 21.)

A.D. 92. A loimic plague is described by the Jewish philosopher Philo, who believed it to have been caused by hot dust. ‘The clouds of dust suddenly falling on men and cattle, produced over the whole skin a severe and intractable ulceration. […]’

Related Words

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